{"id":165,"date":"2007-05-31T20:22:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T03:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/myblog\/category\/1000miles\/day-6-on-the-road-again"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:41","slug":"day-6-on-the-road-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/day-6-on-the-road-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 6: On the Road again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I reached the half way point in El Paso.  I started my day at about 4:45am and finished at about 1:30pm.  I rode a total of 85 miles today!  In all, I&#8217;ve put about 380 miles on the bike.  Ok, some of you might be thinking, 1000 mile trip, half way point should equal 500 miles &#8211; but it doesn&#8217;t.  Remember, I already planned to lose miles at some of the steeper climbs, plus day 2 cost me about 30 miles due to rough roads.  And don&#8217;t forget, I took a much needed day off yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I knew going into this that I wasn&#8217;t going to roll into Del Rio with 1000 miles on the bike.  I&#8217;m going to be happy with whatever the final number turns out to be.  I mean, how could I not &#8212; I rode my bicycle 85 miles today!  I&#8217;m having a blast, my legs are stronger than ever, I feel great, and although its a wicked farmers tan, I am getting dark.  I only need to work on the tall and hansom part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I reached the half way point in El Paso. I started my day at about 4:45am and finished at about 1:30pm. I rode a total of 85 miles today! In all, I&#8217;ve put about 380 miles on the bike. Ok, some of you might be thinking, 1000 mile trip, half way point should equal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}